Philomena Cheer

Philomena Cheer (1748-) was an American theater actress and a lover of British Army officer Major John Andre. During the American Revolutionary War, she assisted him in the capture of Charles Lee in Basking Ridge, New Jersey on 13 December 1776.

Biography
Philomena Cheer was born in 1748 in New York City, New York, and she was an actress in local theatre plays. At some point after the British Army occupied New York in 1776 during the American Revolutionary War, she began an affair with Major John Andre and frequently trysted with him. In December, Andre decided to recruit her for a mission for the crown of Great Britain, in which she would pretend to be the wench "Miss Iris Endicott" from Basking Ridge, New Jersey in order to seduce and capture Continental Army Major-General Charles Lee. She was able to succeed in her mission on 13 December 1776, and she made false screams of pain as Lee was being interrogated, making it appear as if the British were torturing her; however, she was playing cards with some British soldiers, and Lee eventually admitted that he had leaked the location of the Meigs Harbor, Connecticut safehouse to Andre, leading to the failed Raid on Meigs Harbor.